Here’s What They Were LOOKING For at Ilhan Omar's Home | Nancy Mace

[00:00] All right. Good evening, everyone. Congresswoman Nancy Mace from the great state of South Carolina here to talk about my colleague, Ilhan Omar. And in fact, Ilhan Omar's office is right next to mine in the Longworth House office building in Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, she's my colleague. And this morning, her house got raided. And I don't want to hear a single word from a single liberal who celebrated Mar-a-Lago getting raided and who are crying over Ilhan Omar's raid today. And there are rumors flying all over the place about what this raid was about. And we will go over that tonight. It's getting me. Maced in Ilhan Omar is about to get maced.

[01:20] All right. In the pre-dawn hours this morning in her Washington, D.C. home. How can she afford one on her income? I don't know. But I digress. Her home was raided by federal officers of HSI. HSI is Homeland Security Investigations, which is a subset of ICE, which is it's sort of ironic. Because. Because Ilhan Omar will go to anti-ICE protests with signs and people screaming F-ICE. I said F. I didn't say the word. I don't want to bleep it out tonight. It takes too much time. F-ICE. That's what they believe in. So the irony is not lost on me. The problem is this happened. It's happening three weeks out from an election. So the accusations of election fraud and election interference will be will be pretty tall, pretty loud.

[02:17] So here's Fox News. They were on the scene this morning, bright and early, right in front of her home. And you can see on scene behind me, there are several investigators from Homeland Security Investigations. I'm going to back out of the way. Homeland Security Investigations. They go by HSI. They are on scene. Also told that DOJ involved in this investigation. We don't have details, guys, specifically about what the investigation entails, but we can report that it is a federal criminal investigation.

[02:47] Now, there are multiple rumors going around about what this is about. Lawrence Jones, right after this clip, I clipped it too soon. I'm sorry. But Lawrence Jones suggests it might be a possible RICO criminal investigation. We've heard it's about paperwork that her father submitted when she was a child, potentially related to immigration fraud. We've heard that it may be related to her brother, husband's and hers alleged immigration fraud. And then I heard Fox News this morning. Lawrence Jones talked about potential RICO. The big thing is, is this this was not a warrant just sort of willy nilly. We're just going to go into Ilana Moore's house today. No, the feds went to a judge and told the judge they believe that the evidence or maybe evidence of criminal wrongdoing in her home. And they had to get a warrant. They got the warrant from the judge. So it's important that this was an approved judicial search warrant.

[03:47] You know, it's that's an important distinction. It's not like they just pulled it out of the air and said, oh, we're just going to we're just going to waltz in, guys. We're just going to go right in, walk in, waltz in to Ilana Moore's house. No, that's not that's not what happened. There was no weaponization here. But the timing of it is problematic because the weaponization allegations are going to come out that this is politics three weeks before an election.

[04:14] So that is problematic. And maybe to her benefit in any sort of, you know, charge if one's to come up. She hasn't been charged with anything. OK, nothing. This is just part of an investigation in a search warrant. A search warrant isn't a charge. OK, that's she's not been indicted. She's not been charged with a crime. They're just searching her house. And it's unclear if they're searching for her house in Minnesota, too. To get one, prosecutors had to convince a judge that there would be evidence in her home and have reason to believe there may be criminal evidence. So searching a sitting member of Congress's home is extremely rare. But you might you might recognize this guy. This guy is Senator Bob Menendez. He's a former senator, Democrat from New Jersey, caught with gold bars, gold bars. I kid you not. Gold bars in his home in 2022. The FBI searched his home and found gold bars.

[05:15] And four hundred eighty thousand dollars in cash. Some of that cash was stuffed in jackets that had his name embroidered on it. They found a Mercedes convertible.

[05:27] That sounds lovely. He was convicted on all 16 counts in July 24, August of that year. They he he resigned from office. And then he since in January 25 started serving 11 years in prison. Now, I went to a Munich security. Conference one time and I sat in a room with Senator Lindsey Graham, some other senators, and it was the meeting was led. I think Greece was there. There were different country prime ministers and foreign ministers and defense managers, ministers coming in and out of that room. But that room was with Senator Bob Menendez and we were meeting with different world leaders. I've never had anyone offer me a gold bar or any cash for anything. That guy really he really did it up. And so he's in prison now. But honestly, thinking about. The last year or so, I can't remember in my lifetime the last time we were putting we were investigating and putting behind bars, Republicans and Democrats alike to the to the rate that we are, whether it's the Ethics Committee, whether it's a federal investigation.

[06:33] We just had Eric Swalwell resigned in disgrace. He's under investigation due to those sexual predator allegations. Tony Gonzalez was forced to resign from office. Corey Mills was just forced. Out of office because it turns out it appears many of those things were had evidence behind them. I've been accused of a lot of things in Congress, none of which had any evidence. Big difference. And that's just me being targeted by the deep state, being targeted by people I fired. Oops. By me going after the feds. But also here, I don't want to hear a single word about anyone. About. Ilhan Omar and the raid being politicized when they were the ones literally celebrating Trump's home being raided at Mar-a-Lago. Now, Liz Wheeler reminded us. Oh, here's this one. Ilhan Omar said during the raid of Mar-a-Lago and many, many times over that no one is above the law.

[07:33] And I hope she means that no one is above the law. You're right. Nancy Pelosi said during this time that we believe in the rule of law. No one is above the law, she said. I hope she means it now like she meant it then. And then we had Liz Wheeler reminded us that Ilhan Omar might not even be a citizen of the United States if there was fraud involved to make her naturalized as a citizen. She might not actually even be. Ilhan Omar might not even be an American citizen. If she's not an American citizen, she can't serve in Congress and should be denaturalized. Well, she wouldn't be a citizen. She wouldn't need to be denaturalized. Wouldn't need. She wouldn't need to be deported back to Somalia, in my opinion. But anyway. But here's the argument for Ilhan Omar's deportation. The reason that she gained citizenship to the United States is because her father fled Somalia, ostensibly because he was afraid of the Marxist communist regime.

[08:36] But truly, the reason, and if you look at the evidence, it's quite compelling. The reason that he fled was because the regime had been toppled by the people. And he was a member. He was a member of that regime. He was actually a high-ranking military official. He tried to hide that association so that he could claim asylum here in the United States. But he was in charge of propaganda for that communist regime. And that's the reason. I mean, that's immigration fraud right there. Ilhan Omar was naturalized as an American citizen because her father's asylum claim was accepted. But if that was fraudulent, then Ilhan Omar's naturalized citizenship status is itself illegitimate to begin with. Going back to this, I haven't seen a time. When we have had so many politicians investigated, booted from office from the very bad things that they have done or are associated with. Honestly, I think as an American, we have a lot to be proud of right now because we are weeding out some of that. And I think it's very important that we do that. But now, Ilhan Omar has said that she was unaware, previous to this, unaware of any sort of investigation.

[09:42] Watch this. I'm wondering if they've reached out to you at all. No. Have they sent you any letters to tell you you're under investigation? No. Not at all? No. And what's your response to their allegations saying that, I mean, you're familiar with them. Yeah, yeah. The right wing has always had this going, so I don't really worry about it. It's always the right wing, never a legitimate investigation. Omar was born in Somalia. Here she is saying that she's a Somali girl.

[10:14] No. No. If she loves Somalia so much and would rather put Somalians first over Americans, she should probably go back to Somalia. Now might be a really good time to do that. She was born in Somalia. She came here as a refugee in 1995. Now, there are rumors about her father being a war criminal. I don't have any evidence of that. That's just one of the rumors. She became a citizen in 2000. Liz Wheeler said she might not be a citizen because fraud may have been involved with her citizenship. Back then, allegedly, September 13th, White House border czar Tom Holman went on Fox News and he said this. Let me find it. Now, we'll see. I mean, if someone committed immigration violation, someone committed marriage fraud or anything like that, regardless if they're a congressman or not, no one's above the law. So I'll leave it at that. We'll let the HSI Homeland Security Investigations continue the investigation.

[11:15] Now, at the Republican midterm convention, the new Homeland Security Secretary, Mark Wayne Mullen, who replaced that dog shooter, that girl that shot her dog, Kristi Noem, with allegations of things, her alleged boyfriend.

[11:31] Anyway, I should do a whole episode on that, too.

[11:35] But Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen told Benny Johnson he went even further. Well, what's going to happen, Mr. Secretary?

[11:46] Something's going to happen.

[11:49] And this is an ongoing investigation. We know that she married her brother to try to bring him in the United States. We know he lives now in London.

[12:02] We know she married her brother. The Secretary of Homeland Security confirming the rumor that all of us knew to be true, that she really did marry her brother. That's insane.

[12:17] Now, there are multiple accusations out there that this is about immigration fraud when she was a child, that this is about immigration fraud when she married her brother, and that this might be about RICO, some kind of a RICO investigation. I am not, you know, I don't know about the latter. That's what Fox News was reporting may have been one of the allegations. None of these are the same. So Fox's sources I trust. They alleged that late father filled out paperwork when she was a child. Then you have Secretary Mullen saying she married her brother, Ahmed Noor Syed Elmi, I think I did a pretty good job, saying that Mullen says that he's her brother. Homeland wouldn't confirm anything. He wouldn't confirm the brother claim. But Omar has denied it for years. And now it's official. We know that she's she married her brother, according to Homeland Secretary. But the funny thing is, is that I tried, you know, I work so hard and I feel like I'm always ahead of the curve. And I said that. It's going to sound like ego talking, but I feel like I'm always ahead of things.

[13:20] And so I get ahead of things on my stances, whether it's the war in Iran, whether it's Ilhan Omar, whether it's Corey Mills, whether it's Tony Gonzalez, some of these controversial issues. And then months later, I mean, people say I'm crazy. I'm not crazy. I'm just sort of ahead of the curve sometimes. And so now Nancy Mace isn't so crazy. In January, I tried to subpoena Ilhan Omar's immigration records on the Oversight Committee, and it was both Democrats and Republicans who blocked my subpoena.

[13:58] Now, watch this. This is from the Oversight hearing. The committee will now proceed with the Mace motion. Ms. Mace, explain her motion. Yes, this is to subpoena the immigration records of Ilhan Omar. Ms. Mace, this is to subpoena the immigration records of Ilhan Omar and her alleged brother, husband, and another husband whose names I cannot pronounce. The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is the principal oversight committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate any manner at any time. We're going to vote on the amendment and the motion. I'm just saying that's what the Ethics Committee is supposed to do. Chair recognizes Mr. Perry. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There are a few times that myself and Mr. Lynch agree on things. I think he would admit that, as I have. But on this occasion, I feel he is correct. And while this committee may have the jurisdiction to do all manner of things, I think this is a dangerous precedent to set.

[14:57] I was told this was a dangerous precedent to set subpoenaing. Now, what I had done is I had subpoenaed, tried to subpoena Ilhan Omar and her brother, husband's immigration records that day. And then Democrats tried to subpoena Corey Mills' records. I was for both. OK, I don't care if you have an R by your name or a D by your name. Subpoena every effing body. I don't care what your political affiliation is. I have held Republicans and Democrats in contempt. Regardless, the problem is with Congress that I have is you just you got to set the standard and hold everybody to the same standard. We stand on the investigation into Ilhan Omar. Obviously, there's some, you know, questions regarding her citizenship. She's been referred to the Ethics Committee. Can we trust the Ethics Committee to actually be ethical and do the right thing? Well, what? What? What's happened so far? Like, really? I think the mark, the remark is always let the process play out. Right. That's what they always say. And nothing ever, never happens. I tried to subpoena her immigration records, her brother, husband's immigration records.

[15:58] And I was it was Republicans that killed my motion. Yeah. And what's going on with that? Do you have any more insight you can share on that? As far as I know, nothing's going on and nothing will go on. And that's that's Congress. Problem is, is that when they want your ass out of there. They hold you to a different standard. That is the deep state. That is those are committees. Those are your colleagues. That is law enforcement. Those are prosecutors. If you get on the wrong side in politics, those people will go after you. They'll go after you so hard until they throw you in jail or they throw you out of town or throw you out of politics. It's a mob.

[16:37] And it works very well sometimes. So I was told that I was setting a dangerous precedent. By subpoenaing Ilhan Omar and her brother, husband's records by my own Republican colleagues. I don't think so. I set the precedent. Washington just needed time to catch up. Don't you think?

[16:58] So some say it's RICO. Some say it's immigration fraud. We'll see where the investigation goes. I expect Ilhan Omar to call this political and that the administration uses ICE to go after its critics. That's what she's going to. That's what she's going to. My thing is, I'm going back to all the hypocrisy that I've seen today. The left saying that this is weaponization. Literally when they raided Mar-a-Lago. Watch this. The mainstream media have appeared to be delighted about the raid.

[17:31] I think the shortest distance between Donald Trump and an orange jumpsuit is this investigation with the document. Perhaps the orange jumpsuit is forthcoming. I think a lot of people. Do want to see, you know, Donald Trump, you know, handcuffed like an episode of cops and walking out. We want to see a perp walk, Donald Trump. It may be hot outside, but in here, it's Christmas.

[17:57] Perp walked orange jumpsuit. That's what the left was celebrating. They said it was they said it was Christmas. In fact, this is Stephen Colbert commenting on the celebration. Maybe hot outside, but in here, it's Christmas.

[18:14] Because yesterday, we all got the present we wanted. FBI agents raided Mar-a-Lago. Oh, no.

[18:24] Now, I expect Ilana Amar to call this political. She'll call it weaponization. She said today that she wasn't going to be silenced. I wonder if she could not be silenced while sitting in Somalia rather than the United States. And speaking of orange jumpsuits, perhaps she needs.

[18:45] Maybe perhaps she should be perp walked. If we use that kind of language, can you imagine the outrage that the left would have right now? So we should use it. But if the evidence is there, they need to show it. If it isn't, say so loudly. Put this girl behind bars if she's earned it. Either way, a judge will decide that you and I not Twitter. But remember that none of us are above the law. And when you see people being held to a stand, it's good for America. This is good for America. When we're holding Republicans and Democrats to a standard. And this year we've had an unprecedented history, I think, of doing that. Now, I need you to subscribe tonight. Before you do anything else, hit the little subscribe button right now.

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